How to format your references using the International Cancer Conference Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Cancer Conference Journal. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Blackburn EH (2000) Telomere states and cell fates. Nature 408:53–56

A journal article with 2 authors

Tyers M, Mann M (2003) From genomics to proteomics. Nature 422:193–197

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou J, Thompson B, Hess RF (2013) A new form of rapid binocular plasticity in adult with amblyopia. Sci Rep 3:2638

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Maier E, Zhang X, Abelmann A, et al (2018) North Pacific freshwater events linked to changes in glacial ocean circulation. Nature 559:241–245

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Mashadi B, Crolla D (2012) Vehicle Powertrain Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wang L, Shen W (2007) Process Planning and Scheduling for Distributed Manufacturing. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Nogueira FTS (2014) Tomato Epigenetics: Deciphering the “Beyond” Genetic Information in a Vegetable Fleshy-Fruited Crop. In: De la Peña C, Casas-Mollano JA (eds) Epigenetics in Plants of Agronomic Importance: Fundamentals and Applications: Transcriptional Regulation and Chromatin Remodelling in Plants. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 71–89

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Cancer Conference Journal.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) New Drug Could Protect Against Some Aspects Of Radiation Sickness. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-drug-could-potentially-protect-against-some-aspects-radiation-sickness/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2012) Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Is Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Its New Acquisition Strategy [Reissued on August 13, 2012]. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Marjanovic SY (2016) The Role of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein in Regulating T Cell Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms and Implications for Autoimmunity in the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Williams J, Kovaleski SF (2016) Actor’s Past Surfaces in Prosecutors’ Investigation of Penn State. New York Times A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Cancer Conference Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Canc. Conf. J.
ISSN (online)	2192-3183
Scope